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Top Stories | September 4
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Quality of followers, not quantity, determines which tweets will fly
A panel of astronomers ranks proposed astrophysics projects for the coming decade.
Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.
Compost feels so good, sifting through a gardener’s fingers. Unfortunately, data are showing, this soil amendment can host a germ responsible for Legionnaire’s disease, a potentially serious form of pneumonia.
A new study refutes a government claim (one echoed by industry) that the gonzo-scale extraction of tar sands in western Canada — and their processing into crude oil — does not substantially pollute the environment.
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A host of small studies raises a big alarm about exposure to a hormone-mimicking chemical.
Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.
Forensic scientists develop a new way to find where the bodies are buried.